The important thing is that some general gets a bonus paycheque.
Check the bank accounts of whatever DoD assholes signed off on this and then hang them.
Regardless of whether they are dumb circuit boards, no chicom owned company should ever make a dime off the US or UK taxpayer.
Globalism in a nutshell. Spit.
Chinese fighter pilots will have a disable switch when the time comes, smart
not too smart, is it, Mr. President.
Who got the money for this?
Is this the same Chinese company that makes parts for Boeing?
Unfrigginbelievable
Go into battle, push button, plane falls from sky.
This Global economy is great! Ain’t it?
It's a UK based company making bare circuit boards to exact specification of the designers.
The company isn't even putting components on the PC boards.
There is no opportunity to either steal technology from the F-35, or to add nefarious things to the F-35, like an "off switch."
Don't get your panties in a bunch.
Our political leaders are utterly insane, selling out national security for the saving of saving a few bucks/quid.
Lunacy to depend on Red China for any military component or materiel.
PLA owned, huh.
The PLA is the military of China, right...?
In fact it’s NOT:
Legally, it’s the armed wing of the **CCP**, the Chinese Communist Party.
Probably lots of peasants walking around say, “That’s our army”. And there may be lots of people inside of the PLA who say things like that.
But by LAW, it is not, and at several different junctures the PLA has proven that.
Who gave the ok for the contract and why $$$$$$$$$?.
Cheap labor express in exchange for our republic.
and please do not try to persuade me it matters who is in office. Believed that once upon a time, far far away.
If it’s just the board with nothing on it = nothing
“A director from the company said there are “clear firewalls in place” between Exception PCB and its Chinese parent company Shenzhen Fastprint.”
A boiler-plate statement if I ever saw one. Would McDonnel-Douglas have been permitted Russian ownership while they were building F-4 Phantoms during the Cold War? Because you know if they had been the KGB would have been crawling all over that St. Louis plant floor. What bugs me is that when it comes to the Chinese there seems to be a presumption of innocence where they are constantly caught seeking advantage.
Anyone in the US DOD who thinks this is OK should be summarily fired. Those who allowed this, fired.
Today.
No matter the repercussions.
AND, every single one of these boards needs to be replaced. No matter the cost.
Mankind does not often witness this level of incompetence.
Talk about stupidity this is it!
Then it’s not top secret.